So, here's another photo of a famous writer. The last one got identified right away; I'm curious to see how long it'll take for this one.
--John R.
UPDATE (April 28th 2020)
Here's another clue, in the form of an earlier photo, taken almost thirty years earlier: his mug shot taken in 1945 when he was committed to the asylum:
---JDR
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Ezra Pound.
Yes, Pound. Not the only great poet to have gone insane* but the only one known to me to in retrospect describe his life's work as "botched".** And yet for all that one of those behind-the-scenes figures who changed the course of literature.
--JDR
*e.g. Christopher Smart
**maybe there's some of that in Chaucer's Retraction
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